The Influence Of Induced Emotion On Middle School Students’ Mind Wandering

Mind Wandering(MW)is a unique psychological phenomenon and cognitive process,it often happens in people’s work and study.We all have the experience in our daily life that when in the state of happy,anger,sorrow,joy and fear,there are often more mind-wandering experiences and trigger individual to think more about what has happened in the past,what is happening now,and what will happen in the future.How about the individual’s mind-wandering in different mood?What is the effect of different mood to individual mind wandering?Where is the individual’s attention when he is mind wandering?This study will starts from these problems,we will choose video emotional materials to induce individual’s different emotions,and to study the frequency,time directivity and content of mind wandering in different emotional states.The paper includes mainly two aspects:First,Effectiveness Testing of Video-Induced Materials.The study selected ninety middle school students as the research subjects.The students was divided into three groups,30 subjects in each group.And then we used three kinds of induced videos to wake up the target emotion:positive,negative and neutral.Through the experimental task to verify that subjects could be induced to different emotions under the effect of videos,and their emotion maintenance time could reach the target scope under the induction of videos.In the end,An experimental study on the relationship between induced emotion and mind wandering.When the subjects were awaken the target emotion,we would start the experiment operation.The SART experimental task was used to explore the frequency of mind wandering,time-directivity of mind-wandering and the content of mind wandering of middle school students under different emotions.Research conclusions:First,The mind-wandering frequency of the subjects in the negative emotion induction group was higher than that in the positive emotion induction group and the neutral emotion induction group.Second,The subjective and objective indicators of mind-wandering were consistent in different emotional states.Third,The mind-wandering content of the subjects in the negative emotion induction group was more negative than that in the positive emotion induction group and the neutral emotion induction group.And in the positive emotion induction group,the subjects had more positive elements of the mind-wandering content.